Professor Tommaso Calarco
Quantum technologies: what they are and how to build them.
We already have quantum technologies in our pockets: transistors and lasers wouldn't be possible without the first quantum revolution that took place during the last century. Even more promising is the second quantum revolution: harnessing the surprising properties of individual quantum mechanical objects leads to developing technologies in such diverse fields as communication, computation, simulation, sensing and metrology. What was considered to be only thought experiments by the founding fathers of quantum mechanics is nowadays performed routinely in laboratories around the world. The first commercial applications are already available, for instance in quantum communication. After describing the variety of applications areas and their relevance to everyday aspects from communication security to satellite navigation, I will give some examples from the research involved in developing quantum devices.
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